I always wondered if they ever got that minisub out from inside that cave behind the waterfall.
They were showing off their scientific writing skills here.
"Dinky Poore and Henry managed to get it out, but that's another story" is, of course, equivalent to "sub-waterfall extraction is trivial and left as an exercise to the reader."
At least what this has prompted is a panic attack amongst some CIO's out there, who now understand that 1) too much information has long been left in the public domain...
Are these the same bank CIOs who are happy
to use public information to learn all about my
house mortgage to try and sell me crap?
I guess the real question (since I haven't seen downtown Seattle) is this: what does downtown Seattle look like?
One reason Seattle traffic is worse than L.A. is geography. The L.A. Basin has many interconnecting roads and you can make a profession of traffic-listening and choosing the best route.
In Seattle, there's a few routes to a compressed
downtown, and being squeezed by hills and water
means: if the traffic report says slow, your SOL.
OTOH, that means Seattle is the perfect candidate
for mass transit as you have fewer routes to cover.
I grew up in L.A. and now live in Seattle,
while returning regularly. Seattle freeways
used in the last month include I5, 520, I405. L.A. in last month
include Harbor, Santa Ana, Long Beach, San Diego
fwys.
Fact: With the exception of some avoidable
L.A. hotspots, traffic in Seattle is much
worse.
Seattle/state politicians and voters have had years to work on this (don't get me started). It
was far better than L.A. in the early 90's. These days, the HOV lanes are about the only
thing they get right.
ObIrony: In the early 1990s, a campaign against
a (voted down) Seattle transit system included
a picture of the L.A. Metro with the banner
"We don't need another L.A. problem."
But in LOTR he is indeed in his eighties--
Whups my apologies to the original poster, I thought you were amusedly talking about the author of the LOTR (Tolkien) being surprised at the movie's goof at making Aragorn too young, not the author of the article being surprised...
Okay fanboy, if you look at the Book of the
Years (Appendix Whatever) you'll see that at
the time of LOTR, Aragorn is just a little older
than Denethor, and in fact visits and fights
for Gondor (under an assumed name) when he and
Denethor are both young (and Denethor is still a prince).
This worries
a young Denethor that this Gandalf-loving outsider is after the throne, thus setting up
Denethor's distrust for Gandalf (and Faramir) in ROTK.
Aragorn lives a while after LOTR into the
hundreds. But in LOTR he is indeed in his eighties-- movie got it right.
I say go with python. I think kids are by nature impatient...
Can I say that a lot of these ideas on
programming languages are missing the point?
The great thing for me about learning
computers in the 80's was complete control
of my own machine. The hell with massive packages, libraries, or layers, a poke or two and I was sending a pure tone to a speaker or otherwise just messing with the hardware. A wrong poke and, well, boom! Yes I was impatient,
but it was impatience to get at the guts of things.
Nowadays there's so many layers, drivers, etc., etc., that language isn't the issue (hence I agree that logo's was never much fun...didn't do much).
It's that you don't have the control, and without the control it doesn't matter what language you're learning, it's not as much fun and doesn't teach as much.
Re:McDonald's
on
Chicken Run
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· Score: 4, Informative
Oi gots bigendian and littleendian and
surr, but my discerning
customers are all goin' for these little
trits, half again as tasty and better than
those new quantum jobbies, I don't hold with
no being...uncertain-like about me
number-crunching...
[...they started quoting salary figures...] The upside is with my tech aptitude, I'll be able to integrate my computer skills with modern research and data collection techniques rapidly, and if I'm really motivated, maybe even innovate some in those fields
And the irony is you'll be doing well finacially, too.
I'm in marine bio, having switched out of heavy math/CS going to grad. school (finally decided the ocean was a first love despite the $$ offered coders). After grad school, a marine biologist with coding skills turned out to be rare, and the consulting is surprisingly excellent (tho doing what I enjoy is the important bit). Survived the bubble, too...
The current worldwide standard Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) is 200 miles. In fact, IIRC Canada unilaterlly increased their territory from ~5 to 200 to "kick the Spanish off the grand banks" and then (when the Spanish laughed at them) the Canadian coast guard shot at/boarded some Spanish boats and confiscated gear. After which most countries saw the point and extended their own zones to 200.
What if the Soviet leader didn't yield during the Cuban missle Crisis?
Maybe nuclear was.
So with psychohistory, you take 10,000 planets, with 10,000 missle crises, and you can report the probability of nuclear war occuring. Doesn't help on any particular planet though.
Why? Energy released from nukes can change angular momentum. The only problem is directing the nukes (doing at ground level = pushing the air attached to the earth = friction). You'd have to attach the nukes to long poles sticking up into vacuum.
"Hi, my name is Kevin Mitnick. I'm a convicted hacker, but your company has hired me to test your security. What's your password please? Mmm-hmmm...mm-hmmm...great!"
"Hi, my name is Kevin Mitnick. I'm a convicted hacker, but your company has hired me to test your security. What's your password please? Mmm-hmmm...mm-hmmm...great!"
Re:"Default Password" is different then no passwor
on
Phreaking Not Dead Yet
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· Score: 1
The rest of the world doesn't have time to play 'secure the box' against even simple attacks.
I'm leasing a car. I don't have time to play
'lock the door'. It got stolen. Damn car dealer!
Some folks don't see them, others are driven insane by them (could just be the work they do results in them commonly seeing the shadows).
So here I am reading Slashdot on my lovely 19"
Trinitron (from Dell, ~6 months old) and suddenly
I learn there are lines on the screen. You're
right. There they are! Now I can't take my eyes off them. The lines! The lines! Make them stop!!
Things get shorter/heavier/slower when they
approach the speed of light. Judging my own VW,
this makes a good standard because bugs are
the farthest thing possible from the speed of light.
I have two very different types of technical books on my shelves. Some (Numerical Recipies, Mastering Algorithms, Obfuscated C and other Mysteries) are a pleasure to pick up and read for facts and learning. I want dead tree copies.
Some (by far the more expensive and largest) are obnoxious but necessary references on the language/system de jour. I've gone through (multiple editions of) Fortran, Pascal, Unix, C++, Linux, Java, Windows, VB, expensively purging with each change. Give me online!
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They were showing off their scientific writing skills here.
"Dinky Poore and Henry managed to get it out, but that's another story" is, of course, equivalent to "sub-waterfall extraction is trivial and left as an exercise to the reader."
Are these the same bank CIOs who are happy to use public information to learn all about my house mortgage to try and sell me crap?
What I want to know is, how the hell did you sneak through the jury selection process??
One reason Seattle traffic is worse than L.A. is geography. The L.A. Basin has many interconnecting roads and you can make a profession of traffic-listening and choosing the best route.
In Seattle, there's a few routes to a compressed downtown, and being squeezed by hills and water means: if the traffic report says slow, your SOL.
OTOH, that means Seattle is the perfect candidate for mass transit as you have fewer routes to cover.
I grew up in L.A. and now live in Seattle, while returning regularly. Seattle freeways used in the last month include I5, 520, I405. L.A. in last month include Harbor, Santa Ana, Long Beach, San Diego fwys.
Fact: With the exception of some avoidable L.A. hotspots, traffic in Seattle is much worse.
Seattle/state politicians and voters have had years to work on this (don't get me started). It was far better than L.A. in the early 90's. These days, the HOV lanes are about the only thing they get right .
ObIrony: In the early 1990s, a campaign against a (voted down) Seattle transit system included a picture of the L.A. Metro with the banner "We don't need another L.A. problem."
But in LOTR he is indeed in his eighties-- Whups my apologies to the original poster, I thought you were amusedly talking about the author of the LOTR (Tolkien) being surprised at the movie's goof at making Aragorn too young, not the author of the article being surprised...
Okay fanboy, if you look at the Book of the Years (Appendix Whatever) you'll see that at the time of LOTR, Aragorn is just a little older than Denethor, and in fact visits and fights for Gondor (under an assumed name) when he and Denethor are both young (and Denethor is still a prince).
This worries a young Denethor that this Gandalf-loving outsider is after the throne, thus setting up Denethor's distrust for Gandalf (and Faramir) in ROTK.
Aragorn lives a while after LOTR into the hundreds. But in LOTR he is indeed in his eighties-- movie got it right.
So there.
Can I say that a lot of these ideas on programming languages are missing the point?
The great thing for me about learning computers in the 80's was complete control of my own machine. The hell with massive packages, libraries, or layers, a poke or two and I was sending a pure tone to a speaker or otherwise just messing with the hardware. A wrong poke and, well, boom! Yes I was impatient, but it was impatience to get at the guts of things.
Nowadays there's so many layers, drivers, etc., etc., that language isn't the issue (hence I agree that logo's was never much fun...didn't do much).
It's that you don't have the control, and without the control it doesn't matter what language you're learning, it's not as much fun and doesn't teach as much.
Nope.. (And the McFish is invariable pollock).
Oi gots bigendian and littleendian and surr, but my discerning customers are all goin' for these little trits, half again as tasty and better than those new quantum jobbies, I don't hold with no being...uncertain-like about me number-crunching...
America? Bah! All you primates should move out of the dark ages sometime. Base-12 is where it's at.
We'll take our easily divisible Freedom Inches (tm) any day, thank you.
That's not the first skill I'd associate with the SCA.
Is it that bit right next to the Great Wall?
And the irony is you'll be doing well finacially, too.
I'm in marine bio, having switched out of heavy math/CS going to grad. school (finally decided the ocean was a first love despite the $$ offered coders). After grad school, a marine biologist with coding skills turned out to be rare, and the consulting is surprisingly excellent (tho doing what I enjoy is the important bit). Survived the bubble, too...
good luck to you!
The current worldwide standard Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) is 200 miles. In fact, IIRC Canada unilaterlly increased their territory from ~5 to 200 to "kick the Spanish off the grand banks" and then (when the Spanish laughed at them) the Canadian coast guard shot at/boarded some Spanish boats and confiscated gear. After which most countries saw the point and extended their own zones to 200.
So with psychohistory, you take 10,000 planets, with 10,000 missle crises, and you can report the probability of nuclear war occuring. Doesn't help on any particular planet though.
Big hairy woman you need to shave that stuff
Big hairy woman you know I bet it's tough
Big hairy woman all that hair it ain't legit
That link was worth it to see these lyrics entered into U.S case law.
Why? Energy released from nukes can change angular momentum. The only problem is directing the nukes (doing at ground level = pushing the air attached to the earth = friction). You'd have to attach the nukes to long poles sticking up into vacuum.
"Hi, my name is Kevin Mitnick. I'm a convicted hacker, but your company has hired me to test your security. What's your password please? Mmm-hmmm...mm-hmmm...great!"
"Hi, my name is Kevin Mitnick. I'm a convicted hacker, but your company has hired me to test your security. What's your password please? Mmm-hmmm...mm-hmmm...great!"
I'm leasing a car. I don't have time to play 'lock the door'. It got stolen. Damn car dealer!
So here I am reading Slashdot on my lovely 19" Trinitron (from Dell, ~6 months old) and suddenly I learn there are lines on the screen. You're right. There they are! Now I can't take my eyes off them. The lines! The lines! Make them stop!!
Thanks a lot, dude.
C'mon, it's not about strength, it's about practice:
"What have you been up to for the last 150 years, Legolas?"
"Learning how to jump on a horse."
Things get shorter/heavier/slower when they approach the speed of light. Judging my own VW, this makes a good standard because bugs are the farthest thing possible from the speed of light.
I have two very different types of technical books on my shelves. Some (Numerical Recipies, Mastering Algorithms, Obfuscated C and other Mysteries) are a pleasure to pick up and read for facts and learning. I want dead tree copies.
Some (by far the more expensive and largest) are obnoxious but necessary references on the language/system de jour. I've gone through (multiple editions of) Fortran, Pascal, Unix, C++, Linux, Java, Windows, VB, expensively purging with each change. Give me online!